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The StackState team will be in Frankfurt, Germany, June 5-6 for Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit. Come by and visit us to meet with our StackState AIOps experts, see a demo and learn how to accelerate your digital business with Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps).

It probably sounds familiar: You detect an issue with the end user experience (perhaps a performance degradation or outage). Once you’ve discovered the root-cause of the problem, it’s not difficult to fix. However, the real pain point is the time between those two events. Often times it is left to the user to find the root-cause by assembling teams, processes, tools and piecing together siloed data fragments. Every minute spent looking for the root-cause is money lost for your company, and even worse, reputation-damaging. This post covers which evidence you need to collect to accelerate your root cause analysis process. 

Do you have full visibility across your business processes, applications and all underlying infrastructure? Do you wish you could spot any problem across the IT environment before it affects your critical business services? Are you tired of manually correlating data fragments from different tools to understand what is going on in your IT environment?

Utrecht, The Netherlands – January 17, 2018 - StackState, the market-leading Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) platform, today announced that it had raised $8 million in funding from Xebia Holding B.V., a leading Dutch IT consulting firm. StackState will use the financing to expand both its sales/marketing and technical teams to meet increasing demand and accelerate product development.

In my job, I meet a lot of customers who have invested heavily in a data lake. And for good reasons, of course. With the increasing complexity and growing number of tools used, there’s a tremendous need to have all the data in one place. 

StackState has experienced tremendous growth as a company and as a technology. This development has come with recognition from leading publications such as Gartner, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Cloud Native Landscape, which I find both exciting and extremely humbling.

Recently a friend sent me a link to a blog post called “The myth of the Root Cause” (http://blog.scalyr.com/2016/10/the-myth-of-the-root-cause/). This post makes some valid points. Especially the point that as our systems become more sophisticated, so do our problems. Often it is hard to find a single root cause. In fact, there might not even be one!